Rebellion freed Cuba from ‘yoke of Spain’
WHEN a Cuban plantation owner plotted rebellion against Spain he was forced to move it forward four days
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Nixon’s fall guy knew ‘too damned much’
THE man in dark glasses testifying before a US senate committee could have been a spook out of a spy novel, but this was no ordinary spy it was Howard Hunt, one of President Nixon’s plumbers
Madmen’s shrieks haunted Van Gogh’s last year of life
A NEW book on Vincent van Gogh reveals details on the French asylum where the Dutch artist spent most of his last year of life.
Warby still ‘fastest man on water’
FORTY years ago a crowd gathered on the shores of a dam near Tumut to see if a boat built in a suburban back yard could set the world water speed record.
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No mercy for yacht race Atlantic mariner
HIS family describe lone sailor Donald Crowhurst as the modern Ancient Mariner, drifting aimlessy in solitary confusion on the high seas.
Burly US geologist found Saudis’black gold
HE left his family’s farm in Oregon aged 12 to haul logs in California in 1910, but Max Steineke arrived in Saudi Arabia in 1934 and changed the course of modern history.
Battle of Bismarck Sea a disaster for Japanese
The Japanese gambled on a desperate attempt to reinforce their troops in New Guinea, but they hadn’t counted on the Allied response
Thieves held Chaplin’s body for ransom
IT could have been the plot of a particularly dark comedy, but there was nothing funny when two men stole the body of great silent era film star Charlie Chaplin
Koresh and his cultists met fiery end in Waco
AS a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) agent made his way onto the roof of a building in the large compound in Waco, a volley of bullets ripped through the wall beside him. A TV camera captured the moment he was hit and crumpled on the roof.
Charlotte Medal artist first Sydney execution
ON a nondescript wall at the intersection of Essex and Harrington streets in the city, once known locally as “Gallows Hill”, is a plaque commemorating the first execution of a convict, 230 years ago today.
Hong Kong fire killed 670 racegoers
DARIA Xavier, 16, was possibly perusing results from early races when disaster befell Hong Kong’s Derby Day races in 1918.
First US president impeached in hostile Civil War aftermath
SOUTHERN Democrat Andrew Johnson 150 years ago was the first US president to be impeached, for treatment of former slaves.
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